>Number: 13950
>Category: port-macppc
>Synopsis: ANA-6922 boards won't work either with de or tlp drivers
>Confidential: no
>Severity: serious
>Priority: high
>Responsible: port-macppc-maintainer
>State: open
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: net
>Arrival-Date: Fri Sep 14 13:24:00 PDT 2001
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Paulo Fessel
>Release: 1.5.x
>Organization:
>Environment:
NetBSD 1.5.1 firegate NetBSD 1.5.1 (FWMAC) #2: Thu Sep 13 22:06:39 AST 2001 root@firegate :/usr/src/sys/arch/macppc/compile/FWMAC macppc
>Description:
The ANA-6922 Dual Ethernet board doesn't work reliably on my Performa 6360. Both de and tlp drivers fail:
* the de driver appears not to be working in 10 Mbps half-duplex. I get the message "activating 100 Mbps full-duplex" in both de0 and de1, and it doesn't allow me either to set the media type or options. For example, if I set the media as UTP the link goes down; the only option that brings the link up is "auto". I can't set media options with "ifconfig de0 media UTP mediaopt hdx" either. This leads to very poor performance and in errors in the board when I type ifconfig de0, for instance. Ultimately, the machine locks and I have to turn it off and on. The de driver also doesn't like the nsphy mii driver, as I couldn't compile the de driver with it.
* The tlp driver is only able to activate the tlp0 port; the tlp1 port is shown with the following messages:
tlp1: broken MicroWire interface detected; setting SROM size to 1 kB
tlp1: sorry, unable to handle your board
I've searched the bug database and there is a report for this error in PR #9675, but this solution applies only to NetBSD 1.4W. Anyway, the patch shown is for a early version of the driver (1.56).
Also, the tlp0 port is absolutely unstable: if I try to scp files from one machine to this machine, it locks hard and has to be powered off. Strangely, an ssh session goes fine, so I conclude that there are no duplex problems with this driver.
>How-To-Repeat:
Use a Performa 6360 with ANA-6922 board and try to establish a LAN using a 8-port 3Com Office Hub.
>Fix:
Don't know, perhaps a port of the solution on PR#9675 to the latest version of tulip.c.
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